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A retired nurse has been charged with attempting to murder her husband by injecting faeces into his IV drip as he recovered from heart surgery in hospital.

Rosemary Vogel, 65, was arrested after an alarm sounded on the machine monitoring her husband’s condition, according to police in Arizona.

Staff at the Chandler Regional Medical Centre, in Phoenix,allegedly found her tampering with the IV drip. They noticed a suspicious substance and disconnected the tube, which was sent for testing and found to contain faecal matter.

Mrs Vogel allegedly tried to cover up her actions by attempting to drain the fluid from